What are the best new shows onstage this summer? – ryan

AFTER ALL The TONY-CHANG REACHES ITS FINISH LINE IN EARLY JUNE THE TIME CHEW YORK Audiences and Performers Traditionally Pack up and Leave for Festivals or Simply a Little Vacation. But in the midst of that humid lull, there is still plenty to see if you stay in town – wherear inside with the benefit of AC or en Plein Airwhere the venues are getting more plentiful. AFTER A Year of Renovations at the delacorte, Shakespeare in the park Will return in august with a star-saturated cast, while stupid to the south and out the water, little island is ramping up it programming. Essential New Plays Return to Clubbed Thumb, Along With A Smattering of Productions Off and Off-Off and-Though it’s the Slow Season Uptown-You Will Still, Almost Inevitably, Have the Option A Hollywood Star Come to Bradway.

Through July 1
The Wild Project

Clubbed Thumb’s Summerworks Festival Generate Exciting, Eccentric Generate Year, All Crammed Ingeniously into the Powerful Little Lower Side Shoebox is the Wild Project. (It up up Fast; Best to Book Tickets Early.) This Year, Milo Cramer (Creator of Last Season’s Splendid School Pictures) Has Already Opened The Festival with Business IdeasTheir New Play About A Mother and Daughter Engaged in a variety of Get-Rich-Quick schemes while the long-suffler barista in the café they Frequent struggles to escape the grind. Next up, the spike satirist Mara Nelson Greenberg (Do you feel Anger?) premieres Swimming‘s, in which a Young Woman attempts to start a community center in a World Run by and for Billionaires. RO Reddick’s Cold War Choir Practice Rounds Out this Summer’s Trio: Reaganomics and Roller-Skatting Collide with Spycraft and, Yes, Choir Practice in This Environment Play with Music. —Sara Holdren

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Previews May 24
Studio 54

Frome Hacks them WatchmenJean Smart’s Portraits of Funny and Fearsome Women have Taken Over Television in the Last Few Years; Now she’s Coming to Broadway for the First Time Since A 2000 Run in The man who came to dinner. This Solo Show About A Woman in Rural Louisiana with a Secret is Written by Jamie Wax and Directed by Sarna Lapine. —Jackson Mchenry

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May 29 – June 15 / July 8–26
The amph at Little Island

Little Island’s Summer Season is Really Promising, With A New Series of Short Plays and Songs by Suzan-Lori Parks and Her Band SLP & The Joyful Noise, As Well As the First New York Outing of an Original Bluegrass adaptation of tchaikovsky’s OneginWritten by Sarah Gancher (The Wind and the Rain) and directly by Rachel Chavkin. But first, look for The Counterfeit Opera: Dustin Wills and Dan Schlosberg Follow Up Their Virtuosic and DelightFully Zany One-Man The Mariage of Figaro with a new twist on the wolfish satire The Beggar’s OperaDirected by Wills with an original score by the Musical MasterMind Schlosberg and a New Book and Lyrics by Playwright Kate Tarker. THEN The Pulitzer Finalist Shayok Misha chowrs will direct a new Production of Lee Breuer and Bob Telson’s Thunderus The Gospel at ColonusThe soaring musical adaptation of sophocles that premiered at Breuer’s Company Mabou Minnes in 1983, eventual Making It to Broadway, where it is Featured the Blind of Alabama. —Gesture

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May 30 -July 6
Playwrights Horizons

What Happens if the Heir to the Throne is… Well… You know? Jordan Tannahill’s Play, Set in the Very Near Future, Asks How Queerness Intersects with the Very Core of Colonial Power. Though it’s hard to imagine how that will will you all play out in this production, a team-up of the soho rep and playwrights horizons that the producers are calling a “meta-theatrical satire,” it’ll be directly by Public Obscenities‘s shayok Misha chowhrey with a Queer, trans, and nonbinary cast that includes expert Like K. Todd Freeman and David Greenspan. —Jm

June 4 -July 13
Atlantic theater

Described as a “Dark, Twisted Romcom,” Abby Rosebrock’s New Play Imagines a Chance Connection Via App BetWeen an Actress Working Gig Jobs and A Disgraced Rural High-School Teacher. Rosebrock, Born in South Carolina, Has Explored Similar Dark-Comedic Appalachian Territory In Blue Ridge. No Bonney, of The Cost of Livingdirects. —Jm

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June 5 -July 13
MCC Theater

A Group of Boys on an Elite High School’s Debate Team Step Up to Face a Loaded Prompt: “Feminism has failed Women.” But in Emmanuelle Mattana’s Play, Making its American Debut after Australia, Those Boys are all played by femme and nonbinary Actors, Sending the cursing masculinity of preppy overachievers. MCC Has Found an APT Director in Danya Taymor, Who’s Done sensitive and cutting work About High Schoolers (in John ProCor is the Villain) and debates obsessives (in HEROES OF THE FOURTH TURNING). —Jm

August 7 -September 14
Delacorte theater

The delacorte has haad a glow-up, and shakespeare in the park will show it off with a Star-Heavy Twelfth Night (Its tickets still free as Ever, if you can make it through the lines). Lupita Nyong’o, Sandra Oh, Peter Dinklage, and Jesse Tyler Ferguson Lead the Cast in Saheem Ali’s Production, and Junior Nyong’o, Lupita’s Brother, Will The Twin of Her Shipwrecked Heroine, As Disguises, Desire, Deceptions, Mischief, and Music Play in Midsummer Illyria. —Gesture

➼ Eurydice (Signature Theater; in Previews May 13, Opening June 2)
➼ Prosperous fools (Theater for a New Audience, in Previews June 1, Opening June 12)
➼By & Roya (Lucille Lortel Theater; in Previews June 10, Opening June 24)
➼Heathers: The Musical (New World Stages; In Previews June 22, Opening June 30)
➼Ava: The Secret Conversations (New York City Center; In Previews July 30, Opening August 7)
➼Mamma Mia! (Winter Garden Theater; in Previews August 2, Opening August 14)